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• association with the cover transects, thirty more were located independently, making a total of <br />fifty (50) samples. <br />Herbaceous production samples within each reclaimed area or reference area totaled as follows: <br />Area Number of 0 5 sq. m. Plots <br />1989 Reclaimed Areas 2 0 <br />1992 Reclaimed Areas 2 0 <br />PECOCO Pasture 2 0 <br />Wadge Pasture 5 0 <br />Mountain Brush Reference 25 <br />Sagebrush Reference 2 5 <br />Clipped material was returned to the ESCO laboratory and dried at 105 °C for 24 hours, then <br />weighed to the nearest 0.1 gm. <br />• Shrub Density Sampling <br />Shrub density sampling was undertaken in all the referenced reclamation areas of the Seneca II <br />Mine. Shrub density in reclaimed areas was measured within 2 x 50 m quadrats ("belt <br />transects") oriented along the cover transect (where a cover sample was also taken). Shrub <br />density sampling intensity in the reclaimed areas was in some cases greater than cover <br />sampling, so that in addition to the twenty to twenty-five shrub density samples taken along the <br />cover transects, up to twenty-five (25) more were located independently, making a total of as <br />many as fifty (50) such samples in reclaimed areas. Additional shrub density plots were <br />located randomly as previously discussed. In the two reference areas, no shrub sampling was <br />conducted, since it had been sampled very extensively in previous years and resulting data <br />would not have an effect on a woody plant density performance standard. It should be noted that <br />all big sagebrush encountered were referred to Seranhidium tridentatum. <br /> <br />3 <br />